Deborah Danan
By Deborah Danan
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Fast Forward In Israel, a struggle to reconcile grief and joy as Sukkot and Oct. 7 coincide
30,000 people attended a public memorial in Tel Aviv
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Fast Forward 2 years after Oct. 7 shattered them, Israel’s border kibbutzim are drawing new dreamers
But some of the communities battered by the massacre remain largely empty
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Fast Forward Rabbi Jonathan Sacks died 5 years ago. His new Torah commentary is making waves in Israel.
Sacks, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, is the author of a posthumous volume that is challenging Israel’s top-selling Koren Tanakh
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Fast Forward Sidelined at Pride celebrations, pro-Israel LGBTQ Jews find breathing room in Tel Aviv
Anti-Israel sentiment in queer communities can feel like 'being forced back into the closet,' said the leader of a recent delegation from the United States
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Fast Forward Israelis lament their divides, and cling to them, as they mark a holiday commemorating the toll of disunity
'Anyone who doesn’t know how to cry on Tisha B’Av is giving up eternal life,' a rabbi said in reaction to a far-right march set for the night
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv rally calls for war’s end, as hunger reigns in Gaza and ceasefire talks collapse anew
The rally Thursday night came as images of starving children and accounts of unrelenting hunger poured out of Gaza
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News In Druze town where hundreds breached border with Syria, residents mourn one tragedy while fearing another
“They cried, they hugged, and then they went back to opposite sides of the fence, in enemy states,” recalled a soldier who witnessed family reunions during the brief breach
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Fast Forward A cholent crisis? Rabbi’s ruling against Shabbat stew on Thursday nights briefly roils Israel
The rabbi ruled that weekday consumption should be avoided 'so that one can delight in it on Shabbat as is proper'
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